Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Detroit, MI

Design, develop, and maintain Android point-of-sale software for high-availability, real-time restaurant systems focused on payments. Collaborate with product, design, and backend teams to deliver features, ensure quality through testing and code reviews, and address complex technical challenges. Provide technical leadership and mentorship while contributing to subsystem design focused on scalability, security, and performance.

Develop and maintain spacecraft flight software across the full lifecycle: requirements, design, implementation, testing, integration with HIL and flight hardware. Build tools and simulations, perform subsystem and platform-level tests, support anomaly resolution, systems modeling, and proposal efforts while collaborating with manufacturing and customers.

Design, build, test, and maintain React Native features for Hertz consumer mobile apps on iOS and Android. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, integrate APIs and third‑party services, optimize performance, resolve production issues, contribute to CI/CD and testing, and improve mobile UX and accessibility.

Senior backend engineer responsible for setting technical direction, designing scalable distributed systems, building customer-facing web applications, mentoring engineers, and applying machine learning to large-scale healthcare data. The role requires Java, Scala, or Rust expertise, cloud systems experience, technical design leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and adoption of agentic engineering practices.

Lead the architecture and evolution of managed Kubernetes and cloud-native services. Provide cross-team technical oversight, standardize platform practices, integrate open-source technologies, improve scale, performance, security, and operational efficiency, and mentor engineering teams. The role requires expertise in Kubernetes-based platforms, container runtimes, cloud-native architectures, and Go, Python, or Bash.

Hands-on Site Reliability Engineer responsible for production support, incident response, root cause analysis, observability, SLI/SLO development, synthetic monitoring, automation, and toil reduction. The role partners with software engineering to resolve application, database, API, and infrastructure issues, implement permanent fixes, improve reliability practices, and support a rotating on-call schedule.

Drive technical strategy and roadmap for Affirm's Online Storage platform. Design and build multi-region, highly available datastore solutions and control planes for hundreds of databases. Automate schema migrations, disaster recovery, sharding, and performance tuning. Collaborate with product, SRE, and infrastructure teams, own operations and on-call readiness, and mentor engineers while setting code and design standards.

Develop high-performance Android software for automotive user experiences, focusing on infotainment systems and digital displays, while optimizing performance and integrating with embedded platforms.

Lead and set technical strategy for the Order Platform powering post-checkout flows (orders, captures, refunds, settlement). Design and ship highly available backend systems, own reliability/operational practices, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, and drive long-term technical decisions and execution plans.

Build and maintain the AI-powered learning platform across a TypeScript/React frontend and Python/FastAPI backend. Integrate LLMs for classification, extraction, personalization, and conversation practice. Design scalable APIs, develop real-time interactive features, apply AI-assisted development workflows, write well-tested code, and collaborate with product, design, and education teams to optimize learning experiences and A/B tests.

Define and own autonomy architecture for large-scale UAV swarms: design perception, planning, control, and inter-robot/C2 protocols; make system tradeoffs; mentor engineers; write production-quality code; support test events (up to 25% travel).

Build and enhance full‑stack cloud-native applications using Java/Spring and JavaScript/React. Own the full SDLC, apply TDD and CI/CD, troubleshoot production issues, mentor junior engineers, and drive technical direction as experience increases from contributor to Lead.

Join an early-stage platform team to scale and mature a mortgage origination platform. Work across the stack to improve distributed systems, performance, observability, and infrastructure tooling, and help define engineering standards and frameworks for growth.

Design, build, scale, and operate a Kafka-compatible, object-storage-backed streaming platform. Own backend services, storage engine, multi-tenant control plane, transactions and multi-region features. Troubleshoot complex distributed systems, ensure operational readiness and SLAs, participate in on-call rotation, and contribute across the full stack including developer console UI.

Develop and improve software, provide technical leadership to development teams, build APIs and BPMN-based process automation, support user documentation, and deliver low-code/no-code solutions using Appian, Salesforce, or Nintex with Microsoft SQL Server and .NET in agile/hybrid environments.

Design, develop, and deploy secure, scalable backend microservices and APIs for high-volume vehicle telematics data. Build cloud services, ingestion pipelines, and event-driven systems using Java or Kotlin and Spring. Manage testing, CI/CD, cloud deployments, root cause analysis, and defect prevention. Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams on fleet-management solutions, influence architecture and technical strategy, conduct code reviews, and mentor engineers.

Lead design and delivery of low-level, high-performance C++ platform infrastructure for automotive AR HUDs. Work spans vehicle data ingestion (CAN/Ethernet/LiDAR), sensor and camera integration, real-time rendering pipelines (Qt/OpenGL/Vulkan), system validation, prototype stabilization, and cross-disciplinary hardware/software ownership to transition prototypes toward production systems.

Build and ship end-to-end features across a TypeScript/Next.js monolith: dashboard, marketing site, billing, email, and AI-assisted tools. Own data models, APIs, third-party integrations, testing, observability, and production quality. Collaborate with the founder, review code, and improve engineering practices while delivering customer-facing features rapidly.

Lead architecture and hands-on development of the end-to-end video pipeline (live ingest, transcoding, storage, playback, and developer SDKs). Mentor engineers, collaborate across mobile/web/ML/platform teams, own monitoring and on-call support, and help scale video streaming and VoD capabilities for millions of streams and clips.

Build and maintain scalable backend microservices and developer-facing APIs, lead projects end-to-end, collaborate with product and engineering teams, design secure/versioned APIs, and manage cloud infrastructure using IaC.

As a Software Engineer, you'll design and develop microservices using a cloud-native tech stack, with a focus on financial services and secure systems.

Provide expert-level technical support for web and mobile products, debug high-performance RESTful services, triage incidents, coordinate cross-team incident response, collaborate with Client Success, Engineering, Product, and DevOps to resolve complex issues and improve product reliability.

The Senior SRE Engineer will design, build, and maintain resilient infrastructure systems, manage infrastructure-as-code, and write tooling in various languages.

Responsible for designing and implementing authentication features in Go and TypeScript, enhancing Auth architecture, and collaborating with teams to improve user experience.

As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer, you will design and deploy solutions for state governments, ensuring high standards of security and privacy while leading cross-functional teams.